MTN fined N90m by NCC for poor services.
The multi billion dollar telecom, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited,has been hit with a fine of N90m for poor quality of service for the period July to
December, by the Nigerian Communications Commission.This was stated by Director of Public Affairs at NCC, Mr.
Tony Ojobo.
Consequently, he added, it had been
communicated to the operator that it has till April 3 to pay the fine of
N90m for the poor quality of service on its network.
Mr Ojobo also announced the postponement of planned takeoff of mobile number portability by three weeks.Number portability is an application
that will enable subscribers to migrate from one service provider to
another without losing their numbers.The
service which was earlier scheduled to take off on March 25 had to be
put off because mobile operators requested for three more weeks to test
their systems.
He said the postponement also became
necessary to enable the regulatory agency to sensitise Nigerians on how
to port their numbers from one network to another.
The service is expected to put network operators on their toes in offering good quality of service at very competitive tariffs.
The fine is a good start but N90M is still a tiny slap on MTN's wrist. The fine should be hefty enough to put them in check.
ReplyDeleteThis won't checkmate them.their service is appalling and they are rogues!
ReplyDeleteI think the fine shld be about N900m to affect them a bit. They just rip off Nigerians!!!
ReplyDeleteN90m doesn't cut it!assuming they will even pay,moreover what will ncc do with the N90m?
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